You have to be insane to believe that the fundamental assumptions of libertarian economic philosophy can be true in this universe.

1) Consumers do not always act in their own best interests.

2) Consumers cannot have perfect knowledge of the market.

3) Businesses do not act responsibly when unregulated.

Ron Paul sincerely believes that the opposites of those three facts are true, and have we not just spent eight years learning that believing things that are false can get you into trouble?  Besides, Ron Paul holds one fundamental idea in common with Republicans: Community is a bad thing.  Their fundamental purpose is to destroy the ability of a community to act as a whole for the benefit of its members.

Neither Ron Paul nor any other Republican deserves our respect.

by EveningStarNM on 03/24/2009 09:39:59 PM EST

Unless you link to a statement Ron Paul has made your unfounded claims have zero credibility. Do the research if you want to help in the search for the answers we desperately need. Posting opinions without supporting research reduces blogging to "rubbing one out" to make yourself feel good. Not that there is anything wrong with that sport but I don't need to be part  of yours. For I like Cosmos Kramer am master of my domain.

by Mickey Itchi on 03/26/2009 10:44:17 AM EST

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...doesn't mean that I should correct you.  Do you know what a libertarian economic system is?  (My senior project was to program simulations for an economics doctoral candidate who was studying libertarian economic systems -- all of which failed dramatically, drowning their societies in poverty and, quite often, war.  I got an A, he got his doctorate.)

If you call yourself a libertarian then you MUST, by definition, believe those three things.  If you don't then you aren't a libertarian.  If you persist in calling yourself a libertarian without believing those things then you know what you're talking about even less than a libertarian does.

So, as a "master of your domain", why don't you tell us what your so-called domain is? It certainly isn't libertarianism, because you obviously don't understand it.

by EveningStarNM on 03/26/2009 07:08:28 PM EST

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Was there supposed to be some meaning in that post?  Perhaps you simply forgot to include it.

by EveningStarNM on 03/26/2009 07:10:13 PM EST

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